In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, where businesses are increasingly reliant on virtualization technologies, the recent announcement of Broadcom discontinuing the free version of VMware ESXi has sent ripples across the IT community. For MSPs and corporate customers alike, this development underscores the importance of having reliable multiplatform backup solutions in place to safeguard critical data … Read more
VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024 VMware released urgent patches to address critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation products Virtualization giant VMware released urgent updates to fix critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation … Read more
The most serious flaws allow hackers with local admin rights to execute code as the virtual machine’s VMX process running on the host. Source link
A new ransomware tool called “MrAgent” operates as a binary designed to run primarily on VMware ESXi hypervisors with the sole purpose of automating and tracking the deployment of ransomware across large environments with multiple hypervisors. In a Feb. 14 blog post, Trellix researchers identified the gang responsible, the RansomHouse Group, as a ransomware-as-a-service operation … Read more
The RansomHouse ransomware operation has created a new tool named ‘MrAgent’ that automates the deployment of its data encrypter across multiple VMware ESXi hypervisors. RansomHouse is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that emerged in December 2021 and is using double extortion tactics. In May 2022, the operation set up a dedicated victim extortion page on the dark web. … Read more
VMware Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company’s personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software subscriptions instead. … Read more
Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor. News of the change came in a Monday knowledge base article that revealed the tool was removed from VMware.com and offered the following explanation for the change: The free cut of ESXi was only able to run on limited number of cores, addressed a modest … Read more
A sample of the Qilin ransomware gang’s VMware ESXi encryptor has been found and it could be one of the most advanced and customizable Linux encryptors seen to date. The enterprise is increasingly moving to virtual machines to host their servers, as they allow for better usage of available CPU, memory, and storage resources. Due … Read more
Something likely to be absent from Microsoft’s Ignite event is talk of a fix rolled out to deal with malfunctioning Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machines following a problematic update from the company. The culprit was the KB5031364 October update, which contained a variety of fixes and updates for Windows Server 2022, from changing the spelling … Read more
ASRock Deskmini B660W ESXi Build I am making a bit of a habit out of making mini-reviews / build articles, and this is another in that series. Similar to my previous DIY articles, this is another VMware ESXi build. This time, I am temporarily using a tiny ESXi server to replace a failed Lenovo TD230 … Read more